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Movies that feel like Blow-Up (1966)

If you loved Blow-Up, the closest films we have are Don't Look Now (1973), Footprints on the Moon (1975) and Solaris (1972). All three share Blow-Up's contemplative and dreamlike feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.

πŸ… 87% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.4 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Michelangelo Antonionicontemplativetwistytensemelancholydreamlikedread

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Don't Look Now
1973 Β· dir. Nicolas Roeg
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.1thriller Β· drama Β· horror

Both land stillness and tension at once

The difference: Missing the twists of Blow-Up

While grieving a terrible loss, a married couple meet two mysterious sisters, one of whom gives them a message sent from the afterlife.

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Footprints on the Moon
1975 Β· dir. Luigi Bazzoni
β˜… 6.6thriller Β· mystery Β· drama

The same mix in both: twists, then dream logic

The difference: None of the melancholy Blow-Up is built on

Alice, a young translator, finds the real world slowly merging with her recurring nightmares as she tries to solve the puzzle of her recent memory loss. A postcard leads her to the island of Garma where the locals seems to know her. Is she who she thinks she is? And what significance does her dream of an astronaut abandoned on the moon have?

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Solaris
1972 Β· dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
πŸ… 92%β˜… 7.9drama Β· science fiction Β· mystery

Both keep coming back to the same thing: loss of sense of reality

The difference: Leans harder into science fiction than Blow-Up does

A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions.

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A Streetcar Named Desire
1951 Β· dir. Elia Kazan
πŸ… 97%β˜… 7.9drama Β· thriller

Common ground: loss of sense of reality

A disturbed, aging Southern belle moves in with her sister for solace β€” but being face-to-face with her brutish brother-in-law accelerates her downward spiral.

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Fanny and Alexander
1982 Β· dir. Ingmar Bergman
πŸ… 100%β˜… 8.1fantasy Β· drama Β· mystery

Both lean on melancholy more than on drama

The difference: Sits closer to fantasy than Blow-Up does

As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theater company. After their father dies unexpectedly, however, the siblings end up in a joyless home when their mother, Emilie, marries a stern bishop. The bleak situation gradually grows worse as the bishop becomes more controlling, but dedicated relatives make a valiant attempt to aid Emilie, Fanny and Alexander.

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All the President's Men
1976 Β· dir. Alan J. Pakula
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.9drama Β· mystery Β· thriller

One thread runs through both: burglar

During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from his post.

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Deep Red
1975 Β· dir. Dario Argento
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7.5horror Β· mystery Β· thriller

Both are built on the same subject: murder

An English pianist living in Rome witnesses the brutal murder of his psychic neighbor. With the help of a tenacious young reporter, he tries to discover the killer using very unconventional methods. The two are soon drawn into a shocking web of dementia and violence.

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Murder on the Orient Express
1974 Β· dir. Sidney Lumet
πŸ… 89%β˜… 7.2drama Β· thriller Β· mystery

Mystery built on stillness, twice over

In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.

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Carnival of Souls
1962 Β· dir. Herk Harvey
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7horror Β· mystery Β· fantasy

Dread-soaked thriller in both cases

Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh start is interrupted by visions of a fiendish man. As the visions begin to occur more frequently, Mary finds herself drawn to the deserted carnival on the outskirts of town. The strangely alluring carnival may hold the secret to her tragic past.

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In the Heat of the Night
1967 Β· dir. Norman Jewison
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.9crime Β· drama Β· mystery

The same preoccupation in both: murder

African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.

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The House That Screamed
1969 · dir. Chicho IbÑñez Serrador
β˜… 6.8horror Β· mystery Β· thriller

Twisty mystery, and it commits to that

Southern France, 19th century. Teresa, a young girl, arrives at an isolated female boarding school that is tyrannically mastered by Mrs. Fourneau, the strict headmistress, whose protective shadow haunts Luis, her weak son.

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The Vanishing
1988 Β· dir. George Sluizer
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.7thriller Β· mystery

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases

The difference: 22 years apart, and the 1980s show

Rex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation when they stop at a busy service station. Saskia is abducted in broad daylight and three years pass with no answers or closure surrounding her disappearance. Rex has nearly given up all hope when he suddenly begins receiving letters from her abductor.

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